Re: bugzilla.gnome.org is closing

2020-11-14 Thread Neil Thompson
I think you have more chance of seeing the sun go nova. On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 at 15:54, John Mellor wrote: > Gnome bugzilla is absolutely useless, as nobody is doing any bugfixes. > I don't think that a single one of my bugs has been resolved ever since > Fedora started using Gnome. Its a very st

Re: Reasons for staying on a old version ( Re: Prepping for upgrade)

2020-03-12 Thread Neil Thompson
Ralf, With all due respect (i.e. none) I don't think your opinion is really necessary here - you've made your feelings clear over the last long while and I have to wonder what the heck you're still doing here if you hate the whole thing so much. Surely there's another distribution that meets your

Re: Reasons for staying on a old version ( Re: Prepping for upgrade)

2020-03-12 Thread Neil Thompson
Sorted out and working properly. I have no problem admitting I'm letting other people do the hard work now. I've done my time. On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 19:36, sixpack13 wrote: > On 12.03.20 17:29, Neil Thompson wrote: > > I generally wait a month or so before upgrading, jus

Re: Reasons for staying on a old version ( Re: Prepping for upgrade)

2020-03-12 Thread Neil Thompson
I generally wait a month or so before upgrading, just to make sure that everything on the additional repos is sorted out. Having said that, apart from the occasional oddity (like this time I had to uninstall cmake-fedora before upgrading), the cli upgrade process has been pretty much flawless over

Re: Personal disputs in bugzilla (bug 1401166 )

2017-02-20 Thread Neil Thompson
At the very least, I think the package maintainer needs to be spoken to by fedora people - swearing at bug reporters on the Fedora Bugzilla is probably not "being excellent to each other". On 20 February 2017 at 10:52, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi there, > > I frequently get bitten by bug *14011

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-04 Thread Neil Thompson
I'd be a little worried about ransomeware with wine - I remember a virus some years ago which did ugly stuff to excel files (IIRC), and it came in through wine and trashed stuff in my $HOME. All my wine stuff now is done in sandboxes. On 3 May 2016 at 18:40, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > On 16/05

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-08 Thread Neil Thompson
55, In IT since 1980 (COBOL, punch cards, etc). Linux - SLS (April(ish) 1994) - Slackware (Shortly afterwards) - Red Hat Mother's Day (May 1995) and been on Redhattish stuff ever since. Currently chief linux geek at an engineering copmpany. -- Cheers! (Relax, don't worry, have

Re: OT: Where do I find what pkgs may enter(ed) the Fedora chain?

2010-09-28 Thread Neil Thompson
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:34:55AM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > Just Curious. > > http://www.documentfoundation.org/ > Heh...you just got the email from them too? Hopefully, as Red Hat have made a positive comment about this, it'll be sooner rather than later - F16, maybe? -- Cheers! (Relax..

Fedora at South African Software Freedom Day

2010-07-20 Thread Neil Thompson
Hi all, I'm not a Fedora Ambassador or anything, but the folks at my local SFD committee know I use Fedora and were wondering about a Fedora stall at the SFD meeting - http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/SouthAfrica/Pretoria Is there a South African Ambassador? Or does anyone have ad